#23 Error registering EmptyArray<T> (Windows 8.1 x64)

[Daniel Santana]

Due to EmptyArray<t> that doesn't have a namespace (null), i changed Register in genericutil do support this.</t>

    internal static void Register(Type t) {
        Dictionary<string, List<string>> nsmap = null;
        // dgsantana: Correct bug for EmptyArray that doesn't have a namespace defined... ????
        var _namespace = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(t.Namespace) ? "" : t.Namespace;
        mapping.TryGetValue(_namespace, out nsmap);
        if (nsmap == null) {
            nsmap = new Dictionary<string, List<string>>();
            mapping[_namespace] = nsmap;
        }
        string basename = t.Name;
        int tick = basename.IndexOf("`");
        if (tick > -1) {
            basename = basename.Substring(0, tick);
        }
        List<string> gnames = null;
        nsmap.TryGetValue(basename, out gnames);
        if (gnames == null) {
            gnames = new List<string>();
            nsmap[basename] = gnames;
        }
        gnames.Add(t.Name);
    }

[Clayton Stangeland]

I had the same problem with a type with no namespace. Here are the genericutil changes that solved it.

@@ -36,12 +36,16 @@
         // Register a generic type that appears in a given namespace.
         //====================================================================

+        private static string Namespace(Type t)
+        {
+            return t.Namespace ?? "";
+        }
         internal static void Register(Type t) {
             Dictionary<string, List<string>> nsmap = null;
-            mapping.TryGetValue(t.Namespace, out nsmap);
+            mapping.TryGetValue(Namespace(t), out nsmap);
             if (nsmap == null) {
                 nsmap = new Dictionary<string, List<string>>();
-                mapping[t.Namespace] = nsmap;
+                mapping[Namespace(t)] = nsmap;
             }
             string basename = t.Name;
             int tick = basename.IndexOf("`");
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@

         public static List<Type> GenericsForType(Type t) {
             Dictionary<string, List<string>> nsmap = null;
-            mapping.TryGetValue(t.Namespace, out nsmap);
+            mapping.TryGetValue(Namespace(t), out nsmap);
             if (nsmap == null) {
                 return null;
             }
@@ -99,7 +103,7 @@

             List<Type> result = new List<Type>();
             foreach (string name in names) {
-                string qname = t.Namespace + "." + name;
+                string qname = Namespace(t) + "." + name;
                 Type o = AssemblyManager.LookupType(qname);
                 if (o != null) {
                     result.Add(o);